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Flash-Lamp

Description: Patent for a flash lamp for taking photographs. Illustrations included.
Date: October 22, 1912
Creator: Harrington, David
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Wrench

Description: Patent for an automatic wrench. The wrench possesses a locking movable jaw. Illustrations included.
Date: January 7, 1913
Creator: Clay, Samuel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Picker's Truck

Description: Patent for a cotton picker's truck. This invention is to provide a device for supporting the sacks of cotton pickers. Illustrations included.
Date: July 5, 1904
Creator: Franek, Jakob
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Crate

Description: Patent for a crate designed for more convenience in shipping. Illustrations included.
Date: April 16, 1907
Creator: McLeod, Norman J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Design for an Insect-Exterminator.

Description: Design patent for an insect-exterminator that consists of a circular pan and a conical lamp-body arranged centrally within the pan and projecting above the plane thereof.
Date: April 11, 1899
Creator: Hightower, Elijah H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Switch Indicator

Description: Patent for an automatic switch indicator. This invention is designed to "prevent accidents resulting from misplaced switches, due to the carelessness of the railroad employees or the inability of the engineer to see the customary track-signals" (line 14-19). Illustrations included.
Date: October 23, 1906
Creator: Coffin, Edward F.; Shaw, Carey & Green, Samuel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Brooder

Description: Patent for a brooder which prevents chicks from entering after a certain number have gone through the door.
Date: November 5, 1912
Creator: Becker, August B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Drier

Description: Patent for a drier used for drying sugar canes from a sugar mill. Illustrations included.
Date: March 3, 1908
Creator: Rayner, Henry William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

San Antonio - San Felipe Road

Description: Map of the San Antonio Road, a main route which passed through San Felipe, Texas, showing towns, rivers, creeks, and blocks of land. Map includes a compass rose and scale bar in the lower-left corner. Scale [ca. 1:887,040] (14 miles to the inch).
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Colorado Co.

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Colorado County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, and railroads. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map in red ink to denote the addition of roads and crossings. Scale [ca. 1:213,333] (4000 varas to 5/8 of an inch).
Date: 1920
Creator: McDonald, H. F. & Giles, J. Bascom
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Caldwell and Surrounding Counties: Texas]

Description: Road map of portions of Blanco, Hays, Travis, Comal, Bexar, Guadalupe, Caldwell, Bastrop, Fayette, Washington, Colorado, Lavaca, and Gonzales Counties, showing towns, roads, railroads, mountains, post offices, rivers, creek, and springs. No scale information given.
Date: unknown
Creator: Luer, A.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Map of Colorado County.

Description: Survey map of Colorado County, Texas, showing property lines, ownership, land grants, and plat numbers. The map also includes towns, roads, rivers, and creeks. No scale information given.
Date: 1841
Creator: Upshur, H. L.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Map of the Old San Antonio Road]

Description: Map of the San Antonio Road, a main route which passed through San Felipe, Texas, showing towns, rivers, creeks, and blocks of land. Map includes a compass rose and scale bar in the lower-left corner. Scale [ca. 1:887,040] (14 miles to the inch).
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Young priest or an altar server (acolyte)]

Description: Photograph of a young priest or an altar server (acolyte). He has dark rimmed glasses and is dressed in a dark robe with the white full sleeved over jacket. He is holding a book and is standing in front of a dark painted door. Back of photo reads: F. Hamilton ? , Eagle Lake 8/15/27.
Date: August 15, 1927
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

Alleyton, Texas: Back Door to the Confederacy

Description: This book contains the history of Alleyton, Texas, which is located in Colorado County. The book includes information about the Alley family, the founding of Alleyton, reminiscences and recollections, as well as the establishment of railroads, local businesses, schools, and churches.
Date: 1993
Creator: Harrison, William H.
Partner: Nesbitt Memorial Library

Composition For Staining Wood.

Description: Patent for a “paint or stain, which, when applied, will harden on the common woods of commerce, render them durable and smooth, and give them the exact appearance of black walnut” (lines 15-18).
Date: May 16, 1882
Creator: Gloger, Anton F., Jr. & Gloger, Joseph P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Clevis.

Description: Patent for a new and improved clevis. This design "is to provide a clevis with a series of attaching-loops whereby the line of draft may be changed as circumstances may require, to bring the line of draft to either side of the plow-beam, or above or below the same, and to provide a clevis with a centrally-located attaching-loop, to be used where a direct or central draft is needed" (lines 11-18).
Date: January 26, 1886
Creator: Dunn, Henry Frankling
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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